my name is paul gallagher, i'm a resident in nob hill. i work as a middle school teacher. [speaker not understood]. thank you for taking the time to hear our comments today. i just want to express my concern about delays to the better market street project. i think repaving is great and that's made a big difference for me. however, it is still a dangerous street to ride and i think improvements need to happen sooner than later. i also want to echo my support for keeping bikes on market street rather than mission even if the cycle track on mission street. i probably would not divert my commute to that street since i'm coming from the north and connecting to bart. there is little reason for me to be riding on mission. i think it would be similar for many other cyclists. also, i just want to express my desire for a cycle track which included an option 2, i believe, for a bikeway east of 8th street where i do most of my riding and where i see a lot of other cyclists. and, yeah, so, i think option 2 is probably closest to what i would lake to see as far as keeping bikes and ped

paul gal berg. ~ gallagher. come on up. [speaker not understood]. >>> good morning, supervisors. thank you for affording this opportunity. i'm rick [speaker not understood], president of market street railway, the 1100 member group [speaker not understood] and cable cars. for more than 150 years market street has been about motion. it is literally our city's main artery. we need to focus our efforts and resource he to make it flow more [speaker not understood] for bicyclists alike. if we compromise this goal for other considerations, we will be saddled with higher muni operating costs and less safe conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians for decades to come. we believe the mission street cycle track option has very serious flaws. unlike market, mission has many driveways which presents hazards to boeing cyclists and motorists. even bigger disadvantage is moving buses on mission street to market. 14 and 14 l use articulated buses. having these and the golden gate transit and samtrans buses are going do overload market and with greater transit time on market even if you eliminate